Policy Manual sample

MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. THE NURSING PROCESS The nursing process is an orderly and systematic manner of determining a patient's problem, making plans to solve them, initiating the plan or assisting others to implement it, and evaluating the extent to which the plan was effective in resolving the patient's problems. The nursing process is constant and ever ongoing. It is the sum total of nursing activities performed to attain and maintain high level wellness for the patient. (2) Identifying pt. needs/problems/ (1) concerns Gathering (3) information Specifying a goal and objectives for care PATIENT AND HIS SIGNIFICANT OTHERS (6) (4) Evaluating and Prescribing revising the nursing plan actions (5) Implementing the plan Home Health Agency Nursing Manual J-4